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Collects claims of a link to ISIS. The same heading also covers his name appearing on a death list in the organisation's publication.

If you are sincere in your claim, go ahead!

Alparslan Kuytul invited everyone who calls him an Iran supporter, a Shia, a Wahhabi, a takfiri, an ISIS supporter, outside Ahl al-Sunnah or an enemy of Sufism and the orders to a mubahala: "If you are sure, come; I will bring my wife and my children, and you bring yours — whoever is lying, may their root wither." The invitation still stands.

The claim that he supports terrorism or regards it as legitimate

After the attack on the Adana governor's office on 25 November 2016 he said "rights are not sought by killing innocent people"; two years later he was named together with four separate terrorist organisations.

Unfounded

The claim that the Furkan Foundation has links to terrorist organisations

The documents stating that the foundation had no link to terrorism were inside the case file itself; the reports of the TEM counter-terrorism unit and of MİT had been drawn up more than a year before the operation.

Unfounded

The claim that he was a member of four terrorist organisations at the same time

He was accused of membership at the same time of four organisations that fight one another; when he was arrested the organisations were not even named, and in the final indictment all of the membership charges were withdrawn.

Unfounded

"We Have No Direct Connection to Any Religious Community"

His answer to the question of which current in the world the Furkan Movement is affiliated with: it has nothing to do with the Salafi line and no organizational tie to any religious community; benefiting from their books is another matter.

The claim that he declared those who go into the army, police officers and civil servants to be unbelievers

These words are not Kuytul's but those of takfirist circles who came to his talks and tried to influence young people; he listed those views one by one and rejected them, giving his reasons.

Unfounded

Does Alparslan Kuytul Support ISIS?

Not a supporter of ISIS but a name that appears on the organisation's death list; his criticisms of ISIS were recorded in 2014, four years before the accusations.

Unfounded

The claim that an ISIS member was his student

The ISIS member in question is the person who stated to the police that they had come to Adana in order to assassinate Kuytul: not his student, but his target.

Distorted

The claim that he declared those who vote unbelievers

He does not vote himself; but not only has he never called those who vote unbelievers, he is the one who told those who called them unbelievers: "do not talk like this" — saying that an act is wrong is not the same as calling it unbelief.

Unfounded

The claim that he advocates armed jihad

The answer, dated 30 May 2010, says that jihad is also waged with property, with knowledge and with preaching, and that nothing can be achieved in Turkey by arms; the claim holds on to a single sentence about occupied lands.

Out of context

The claim that he supports armed organisations

The claim is older than the 2018 operation: the same question was put and answered on 15 February 2014, and in a record of activity spanning more than thirty years, all of it public, not a single piece of evidence of support has emerged.

Unfounded

The claim that Salafi and takfirist individuals attended his talks

The claim was manufactured out of the middle of a single sentence in the police letter in the 2018 case file; both the beginning and the end of that same sentence say the opposite of the claim.

Out of context

Is Alparslan Kuytul a takfirist?

The person accused of takfirism is someone who gave a twenty-five-hour talk to set out the harm takfirism does; the state's own record likewise says that he "does not hold a takfirist understanding".

Unfounded

The "Enemy of the Alevis" Claim

The foundation is based in Adana, a province with a dense Alevi population. In twenty-two years there has not been a single incident between the two sides; participants of Alevi origin are in the movement too.

Unfounded

Kuytul's assessment of the downing of the Russian plane

The full text of the talk that was put into circulation in cropped form: the possibility of retaliation, 5.7 billion dollars of exports, dependence on natural gas, NATO's position in December 2015 and the rules of engagement.

The "Pro-Russian" Claim

Three or four seconds were cut out of a long answer; the sentence "we would all fight against Russia together" comes immediately after the point of the cut.

Distorted

The claim that an ISIS suspect attended the talks and that this shows a connection

A person who attended a talk open to everyone was counted as a "student" and as evidence of an organisational connection. Kuytul's only recorded relationship with ISIS is that his name appeared on the organisation's death list.

Distorted

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